Kenan Institute Announces Campus Grants
Funds support campus dialogue on ethical, moral issues
The Kenan Institute for Ethics has awarded Campus Grants of up to $500 to six initiatives at Duke that promote ethical reflection, deliberation, and dialogue.
All members of the Duke community, including students, faculty, and staff, are eligible to apply for these grants to support speakers, meetings, workshops, publications, special events, curriculum development, organizational collaborations, and other activities. Selection criteria include the funding of diverse perspectives and a wide range of recipient or project types
New winners are:
The Animal/ Human Boundary Forum
Pei Yen -- Duke Students for the Protection of Animals and Plan-V
This planned forum will explore differing ethical frameworks for evaluating the relationship between animals and humans. The event will pose these competing moral views against one another and open them for challenge by speakers and the audience.
Moral Mathematics: The Science of Modern Human Rights
Robin Kirk - Duke Human Rights Center
"Moral Mathematics: The Science of Modern Human Rights" is a one-day conference that will examine how the quantitative sciences, including statistics and polling, can contribute to-or complicate-the protection of human rights.
inSight Student Documentary Festival and Screening
Lindsay Bayham and Kevin Hwang
A student documentary festival and documentary presentation raising challenging questions about the impact of WISER, girls/ education and cultural change in Kenya and exploring the ethics of using documentary work for advocacy.
e-Ethics: A Forum on Student Computer Use
Valerie Kolko - Office of Judicial Affairs
e-Ethics will be a one-evening panel discussion featuring three or four experts speaking on ethical issues in student computing and usage, including downloading and sharing copyrighted media files, Facebook and social networking, Second Life personas, and plagiarism using online sources.
The Duke Law Innocence Project Forensic Science and Law Workshop
Jeffrey Ward - The Duke Law Innocence Project
The grant will support a series of workshops and lectures exploring the role of forensic evidence in our criminal justice system, particularly as it pertains to claims of actual innocence and miscarriages of justice.
Duke/NCCU/UNC Stop Hunger Now Event
Lindsay Mamula - Duke Community Service Center
Duke, Durham Rotary Club, NCCU, UNC-CH, and the international hunger relief agency Stop Hunger Now plan to join together to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.. in a million meals service event. Students from Duke, NCCU, and UNC will work toward the goal of packaging 200,000 nourishing, dehydrated, rice-soy meals.
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Applications for these grants are considered twice each academic year. Deadlines for submission of applications are February 15 and October 1.
For more information and to download an application, visit the Kenan Institute for Ethics website and click on Grants & Awards or call 660-3033.